Convergence is based on the default XBMC skin Confluence incorporating many of the now popular tweaks, addons and scripts all based on a highly customizable vertical Home menu with a more transparent look to enable a better view of background fanart.

The repo installer can be found Here, which needs to be downloaded and loaded onto XBMC via the menu option to install addon from zip file.

Thanks, Fixed silly error - had been looking at the different ways people had implemented the script & got careless. My Laptop is running Nightly version PRE-11.0 Git:20110419-d951ea1 Windows & my main Linux PVR machine is running off the lars-opdenkamp-xbmc-pvr-lucid and yavdr ppa's. Cinema Experience is running on both machines, once the repo was refreshed there was no problems with the updated script.cinema.experience.

In the updated script.tvtunes-0.8.1, the scripts name has changed from script.TvTunes. This unfortunately has broken the command to call the script. I've changed the command but have not released an update as I'm off work tommorrow & plan to work on the skin. If anyone is desperate to get tvtunes working a.s.a.p. let me know & I'll provide a link for the fix.

Other fixes include tvtunes case change, weather+ addon , more content panels have increased transparency, weather widget can now be sticky, small changes to sysinfo to hide temps or hd capacity if pc does not support, changed script.favourites from required to suggested (Needed for Fav on Home Menu)

If anyone is willing to help with language translations please let me know.

Any genre showing up as unknown will be missing it's matching image. A zip of the images I used can be downloaded from Here

As this skin is now touching the 100 meg mark a decent internet connection is required. (May have to think about a separate download for all the artwork soon?)

I would also suggest to switch back to Confluence while updating as basically xbmc has to delete the skin and reinstall it. On my windows machine there is a definite gain in speed if the skin is not in use.

Convergence is aimed at xbmc 11 and is a skin based primarily on Confluence with whatever mods take my fancy. I however did first see the transparent panels on Influence as well as the script to incorporate various items on the home screen. The difference between the two will get further apart as this skin evolves and I’m sure Influence has its own path to follow.

Thanks. Yeah I like that idea. Right now I’m getting more video library views done but will start on your idea as well. Would just have to check that it doesn’t slow down the skin too much crawling through folders looking for extrafanart.

Added Support for MusicViz Extrafanart - Request by venealis.
YouTube added to Home menu by default, User can hide if required.
Skin now supports UK Ratings and Studio Logos, Watched overlay can now be disabled.
Added three new movie views - Wallstream, Halfwall and Alt Poster View. These walls still require a bit of tweaking but are working on my test machine. Once my main box with a decent size library upgrades the small niggles can be found.
My previous problems with unmet dependencies seem to be over so script.favourites-1.0.6 is back on the import list when the skin installs along with script.tvtunes-0.9.0

Unfortunately if users have added their own genre fanart it will be wiped out by the upgrade, so please make sure you have backup copies.